Alicia Meheen finds beauty in nature

11:13 PM,
Aug. 12, 2013

Alicia Meheen holds one of her completed watercolors.

Written by

Dee Myers
For Off 68

Artist Alicia Meheen didn't experience the beauty of the Monterey Peninsula until her family moved to Carmel, when she was a high school sophomore, but she had developed a rapport with nature long before as a young child. Meheen's father, a college professor of electronics, had been hired by the Naval Postgraduate School, originally located at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The transition to new quarters in Monterey was expected within a year, two years at the most. Consequently, the family of was not given faculty quarters on the campus. They had "temporary" housing in a ...